Bug#59439: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#59439: login.defs: Should we document why default TTYPERM is 0600?

2005-05-13 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 59439 pending thanks The following has been added to the default login.defs fileĀ : # In Debian /usr/bin/bsd-write or similar programs are setgid tty # However, the default and recommended value for TTYPERM is still 0600 # to not allow anyone to write to anyone else console or terminal #

Bug#59439: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#59439: login.defs: Should we document why default TTYPERM is 0600?

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Quinson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 06:34:35PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: Ben Collins answer to #59439 seems to make sense to me. I tested all this and, with the default setting of TTYPERM 0600 we have in Debian, users cannot use write to another user unless that user issues dmesg y in his/her